Holocaust Remembrance Day Honors the Six Million Today

  Today, Jan. 27, was the day in 1945 when the Red Army liberated Auschwitz. Seventy-six years later, we commemorate that day as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.        

     In 2005, after marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps, the United Nations passed a resolution that designated today as a day to honor the 6 million European Jews and 11 million others who were killed by Nazis between 1941 and 1945. 

    In addition, the U.N. resolution encouraged the development of Holocaust educational programs that help to prevent future acts of genocide and Holocaust-denial.

    In 2008, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon said, “We must also go beyond remembrance, and make sure that new generations know this history. 

    “We must apply the lessons of the Holocaust to today’s world.”